Progressive Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Caused by an Autoimmune Response to Intravesical Bacille-Calmette-Guérin Treatment

Progressive Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Caused by an Autoimmune Response to Intravesical Bacille-Calmette-Guérin Treatment

Systemic BCGitis and autoimmune diseases are possible adverse events of intravesical Bacille Calmette-Guérin-(BCG)-instillations in the treatment of urothelioma cancer. We present the case of an 83-years-old male patient with rapid progressive symptoms of dementia up to mutism as well as tonic seizu...

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Main Authors: Anouck Becker, Iris Quasar Grunwald, Marcus M. Unger, Stefanie Behnke, Joerg Spiegel, Umut Yilmaz, Silke Walter, Klaus Faßbender
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
cerebral vasculitis
small vessel disease
BCG
Bacille-Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
autoimmune disease
urothelioma
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2020.484282/full

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